It was the 1980s when Renato Fechino and his brother started mixing ground peanuts with sugar in a PVC pipe while waiting for the factory’s candy batch to be ready. I can’t really tell you if it’s good or bad compared to other brands of Paçoca as I haven’t tried (or even seen) any other brands. Line the bottom and sides of an 18cm diameter cake pan with removable sides, and place it in a pre-heated oven for five minutes.

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Both are a mix of cassava flour with other ingredients: peanut and sugar in the case of the sweet, and carne-de-sol ( sun-dried-beef) for the salty dish. Description: First let me explain that Paçoca is the generic name for a super-sweet, crumbly sweet made from ground peanuts, sugar and salt (and sometimes that Brazilian favourite, sweetened condensed milk). What I can tell you is that while one is delicious, attempting to eat a second will probably make you feel sick.

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It also makes a good pair with the coffee in the end of the afternoon, and sweetens the conversation with the family. I do like chocolate (I’m not completely crazy), but the really sweet things like Brigadeiro are a little too much for me. Eradicating the rats involved painstakingly laying bait in nooks and crannies across the landscape, flavoured with everything from peanut butter to chocolate "to make sure we got the picky ones", Ms Challenger explains.The Santa Helena factory was founded in 1942 by his grandfather, José Marques Telles, and has been in the family ever since. There are definitely other brands of this that are sold at Mundial, but I’ve never been able to taste a difference.